Convertible furniture.



G. B. BIDDLR CGNVEBTIBLE 'FURNTUER APPLIoATmH FILED JULY 27, w10.

988,212, Patanted 13531328, w11.

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GGNVERTIBLE FURNrrURE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. RIDDLE,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Convertible Furniture; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. This invention relates to convertible furniture, and from the drawings and the following description it will readily be seen that the invention is applicable for. use in many outdoor connections whether swung from porches, trees or other supports.

One of the primary objects of the invention is to provide convertible furniture which may be readily shipped in a folded position for use in camp or otherwise, and which article may be converted into a bed, a chair, or couch having an adjustable back, a swinging table, a swinging floor support for a tent, and for other analogous uses. The advan-V tages of a piece of furniture of this character are obvious, and the particular features of novelty will be embodied in the claim.

While the invention is not restricted to the eXact details shown and described, still for the purpose of disclosure reference is had to the accompanying drawings illustratin ing a practical and preferred embodiment of the invention, in which drawings like characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 shows the invention in elevation, as a seat with an adjustable back and swung from a suitable support such as a tree limb. Fig. 2 shows a view in side' elevation of the invention folded out iiat in heavy lines to form a swinging bed or tent flooring and provided with a tenting of mosquito netting or other fabric, and in dotted lines showing one member adjusted in an upright position to form a back rest. F ig. 3 is a detail view showing' one means for providing for elevating one end or the other of the article,

'and Fig. 4 is a detail view showing one method of hinging the two parts together.

The invention consists of a two part member, and it will be understood that this two-part member may be of plain type or upholstered, or of any suitable construction. In thc-drawings it has simply been shown as two slatted frames 1 and 2 hinged together in lSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application led July 27, 1910. Serial No. 574,186,

Patented ll if? one hich any suitable way. In Fig. @tithe way of hinging the part (t. j 3 is a hinge pin extending two-part member, and prov and a nut so that the pa I or detached for actualf-'s rv Vor.@torshipping, tlie hinge pin passinglthroi' "hwpr0- j ecting arms 4 carried by the-two 'nembersni This form of hinge connection noti-altogether desirable owing to the possibility of the hinge pin being lost during shipping'. In Fig. 2, however, there is shown a construction consisting ot an arm 5 securely aiiixed to one of the two-part members and projecting beyond same, said arm terminating in a curved hook 6 cooperating with an eyelet on the opposite member, such securing devices being attached to both endsof the members. It will readily be seen by this construction that the parts are hinged together centrally but are tree to be -folded up and detached without any of the parts being loose.

8 designates fastening means secured to one of the hinge members, and to these fastening means, at each end of the articles, are attached the central chains 9, which extend upwardly and are adapted to be secured to a suitable support. 10 and 11 designate short side diverging chains secured to said central chain, and at their lower ends connected to the outer ends of said two-part member,- by means of eyelets 12-and swinging hooks 13' adapted to engage the links of the chains 10 and 11.

14 designates a centrally disposed"l longi t-udinal rod extending from one of the central chains 9 to the other, and forming a cross rod or support for a tent covering 'or mosquito netting 15.

In Fig. 3 there is shown a construction whereby the chains 9, 10 and 11 are'joined together by a common ring 16, to lwhich there is attached a hook 17.

In operation it will be obvious that if the article is to be used as a swinging table, orv a bed, or as a floor of a swinging tent, the hooks 13 are hooked into the lowest link oi the chains 10 and 11, so that the two mem-- bers will lie in the same' plane, as indicated in Fig. 2. AIt either of the members is to be. adjusted in an inclining position the hooks 13 on that side which is to be tilted are inided serted higher up in the links of its respective ,110'

chains 10 or 11. Also when' the article is used'as a bed it may be desirable to have the head portion e little higher than the foot portion, and this can be readily accomplished by the construction shown in Fig. 3, Whereby the hook 17 is hooked higher up in one of the links on the chain 95 in this construction that the upper portion 9* of the chain 9 is detachablefrom-the lower portion by means of the ring and hook connection 16 and 17.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim isz- In convertible furniture, the (mhination of a' pair of members, one of said members being provided at lits ends with an arm ter- 'e vprojecting hook,` and the minatm 1n' other .o Vsaid members beingprovided at it being understood in -presence of its ends With eyelets cooperating with said projecting hooks to forni e detachable hinge joint therebetween, central end cables sup? porting one of seid members, diverging branch cables securecl et one of their ends to seid central cbles and at their other ends detachahly anti edjustfibly vsecured to the outer enfls o seifl members, end further cables suspending seid 'central and diverging cables, substantially es described.

.In testimony whereof, eflix my signature,

two Witnesses; CHARLES B. RIDDLE.

Witnesses:

C. P. BEDDOW,

MARIE GILARDONI. 

